Stephen Steinberg

Counterrevolution

The Crusade to Roll Back the Gains of the Civil Rights Movement

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Produktbeschreibung

A valuable resource and stirring call to action for anyone interested in antiracist perspectives on policy and scholarship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781503630024
• ISBN-10: 1503630021
• Artikelnr.: 61144718

Autorenporträt

Stephen Steinberg is a sociologist and Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is a foremost scholar of the political economy of race, having conducted research and published in race and ethnicity for more than forty years. He is the author of The Ethnic Myth (1981. 1989. 2001); Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy (1995, 2001), which received the Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship; and Race Relations: A Critique (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "Race Relations": An Obfuscation
Part I: Counterrevolution in Theoretical and Historical Perspective
1. Nails in the Coffin of the Civil Rights Movement
2. How Daniel Patrick Moynihan Derailed the Civil Rights Movement
3. Nathan Glazer and the Assassination of Affirmative Action
4. The Comeback of the Culture of Poverty
Part II: Deconstructing Victim-Blaming Discourses
Chapter 5: The Role of Social Science in Legitimating Racial Hierarchy
Chapter 6: Is Education a False Panacea for the Racial and Class
Inequalities of Capitalist America?
Chapter 7: The Myth of Ethnic Success: Old Wine in New Bottles
Chapter 8: "Making It": Fact Versus Fiction
Chapter 9: Race and the Fallacy of the Goose-Gander Rule: Implications for
the Black Lives Matter Movement
Chapter 10: The Political Uses of Concentrated Poverty
Part III: From Backlash to Frontlash
Chapter 11: Decolonizing Race Knowledge: Exorcising the Ghost of Herbert
Spencer
Chapter 12: The Myth of Black Progress
Chapter 13: Systemic Racism: The Elephant in the Room
Chapter 14: Bring Back Affirmative Action
Chapter 15: Trump, Trumpism, and the Resurgence of White Supremacy